On September 4, 1957, 15-year-old Elizabeth Eckford set off for Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. She was well aware that she was not wanted there, that she was entering a world in which she should have no place. Three years after the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark decision Brown v. Board … 
segregation
the continuity of adhocracy: formal practices of segregated schooling of immigrant students as a mirror for German migration politics
Introduction[1. This article is based on a collaborative work with Birgit zur Nieden, Çağrı Kahveci, Sophie Gross and Mareike Heller (see Karakayalı et al., 2017).]
Ever since the summer of 2015, an increasing number of school-age children and youth for whom school is mandatory have arrived in …
segregation, inequalities and discrimination
Reacting to Segregation
How do urban and school segregation impact inequality and the perception thereof? Our hypothesis is based on the crucial role of segregation in changing the framework that people use to interpret their own experience and more particularly social hierarchy and difference. …
segregation, caste and cash: segrenomics in Detroit
Introduction
For a brief period in April of 2020, a federal appeals court in the United States declared that public school children in Detroit, Michigan had a constitutionally guaranteed and protected right to a level of education that prepared them to participate in the democratic process as …
is faith in school integration bad faith?
[It] is sentimental and romantic to assume that any education or any example will ever completely destroy the inclination of human nature to seek special advantages at the expense of, or in indifference to, the needs and interests of others. (Reinhold Niebuhr)
Integration is an idea that refuses to …
segregation from a normative perspective
Once we see that segregation is a matter of degree, rather than all-or-nothing, we see it everywhere. There is segregation by class, by status, by racialized group, by gender, by religion, by age… There is residential segregation, workplace segregation, educational segregation, segregation between …
editorial: segregation
“And you know, there was a little girl in California who was a part of the second class to integrate her public schools, and she was bused to school every day. And that little girl was me.”
Harris, 2019
One of the most remarkable moments during the US Democratic primary election may have been the …